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Verse Judges 17:7. _OF THE FAMILY OF JUDAH_] The word _family_ may be
taken here for _tribe_; or the young man might have been of the tribe
of _Judah_ by his _mother_, and of the tribe of _Levi_ by h...
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The Hebrew words for “he sojourned there” are, שׁם גר _gêr_
_shām_, which words are used Judges 18:30 in the genealogy of this
young Levite, whose name was “Jonathan, the son of Gershom”
(גרשׁם _gê...
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III. THE APPENDIX: ISRAEL'S INTERNAL CORRUPTION
1. Micah's and Dan's Idolatry and Its Punishment
CHAPTER 17 The Images Made and the Hired Priest
_ 1. The stolen money restored and the images (Judge...
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MICAH SECURES A LEVITE AS PRIEST.
Judges 17:7. The young man was a Judæ an by birth, and a Levite by
profession. It is a contradiction to say that he sojourned among his
own people. The clause should...
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JUDGES 17-18. This section is the first of two supplements. It
explains the origin of the famous shrine at Dan, and the _naî veté_
of its moral and religious ideas proves how ancient it is. In not a
f...
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A YOUNG MAN. See note on Judges 18:30.
BETH-LEHEM-JUDAH. To distinguish it from Beth-le-hem in Zebulun
(Joshua 19:15)....
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_a young man … sojourned there_ i.e. in the neighbourhood of Micah's
house. Technically the word _sojourner_(Hebr. _gçr_) means one who
lives under the protection of a tribe to which he does not belon...
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_Micab's Hired Priest Judges 17:7-13_
7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of
Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
8 And the man departed out of the city from...
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_AND THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN OUT OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH OF THE FAMILY OF
JUDAH, WHO WAS A LEVITE, AND HE SOJOURNED THERE._
Beth-lehem-judah - so called in contradistinction to a town of the
same name in Zeb...
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THE STORY OF MICAH
This story, which is continued in the following c, is undoubtedly a
very old one. In striking contrast to many other narrative portions of
the Old Testament, there is in the body of...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 17
V1 There was a man called Micah from the hilly country where
Ephraim’s *tribe lived. V2 He said to his mother, ‘Someone stole
the 1100 pieces of...
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A YOUNG MAN. — Later on in the story we, as it were incidentally,
make the astonishing discovery that this young man was no other than a
grandson of Moses.
OUT OF BETH-LEHEM-JUDAH. — So called to dist...
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וַ יְהִי ־נַ֗עַר מִ בֵּ֥ית לֶ֨חֶם֙
יְהוּדָ֔ה...
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THE STOLEN GODS
Judges 17:1, Judges 18:1
THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth
chapter and extends to the close is not in immediate connection with
that which has gone b...
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Here begins the final section of the Book of Judges which is of the
nature of an appendix. The events here recorded must have taken place
closely following the death of Joshua. They give us a picture...
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A Levite who had been living in Bethlehem set out in search of a new
place to live and came to the house of Micah. Micah offered to pay him
ten shekels of silver a year along with a suit of clothes an...
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And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah (f) of the family of
Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.
(f) Which Bethlehem was in the tribe of Judah....
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Another, is not in Hebrew or the Septuagint but it refers to the
former young priest, the son of Michas, whose place he took. ---
Thereof. It is uncertain whether this be spoken of the city or of the...
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The rambling conduct of this young man, manifests his real principles.
The Lord had made all suitable provision for his Levites, while they
remained in his service. But when idolatry is set up in Isra...
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My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire
to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar
character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21.
The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical
order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of
the...
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AND THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN OUT OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH,.... As there were two
Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, Joshua 19:15 and another in
the tribe of Judah, the place here designed, Judah is added...
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And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of
Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Ver. 7. _And there was a young man._] _Puer:_ so he is called
_ratione ministerii_...
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_Beth-lehem-judah_ So called here, as Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:5, to
distinguish it from Bethlehem in Zebulun. There he was born and bred.
_Of Judah_ That is, of or belonging to the tribe of Judah; not...
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1 Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother
maketh Images,
5 and hee ornaments for them.
6 He hireth a Leuite to be his Priest.
1 AND there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose na...
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A Levite Made the Idol's Priest...
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And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, later the birthplace
of the Savior, OF THE FAMILY OF JUDAH, WHO WAS A LEVITE, AND HE
SOJOURNED THERE, he lived there for a while as a stranger....
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BOLD IDOLATRY IN ISRAEL
(vv. 1-13)
Samson was the last judge in Israel. The last five Chapter s of Judges
-- 17 to 21 -- deal with conditions during the time of the Judges, so
do not necessarily tak...
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7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his
images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please
themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bri...
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OUT OF BETH-LEHEM-JUDAH, or, _of Beth-lehem-judah_; so called here, as
MATTHEW 2:1,5, to difference it from Bethlehem in Zebulun, JOSHUA
19:15. There he was born and bred. Of the family of Judah, i.e....
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‘ And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-judah, of the family of
Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.'
There were two Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, (Joshua
19:15), and this...
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CONTENTS: Micah's worship in self will.
CHARACTERS: Micah, his mother, a Levite.
CONCLUSION: The love of money makes much mischief; destroys the duty
and comfort of every relation and frequently lea...
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Judges 17:1. _A man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah._ This was
soon after the death of Joshua, says Josephus, and before the civil
war with Benjamin.
Judges 17:2. _About which thou cursedst._...
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_Micah._
MICAH’S MOTHER
In the second verse of this chapter Micah makes a clean confession of
a great wrong which he had done to his mother. “It seems,” says
Matthew Henry, “that this old woman, with...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 17:1 The Depths of Israel’s Unfaithfulness.
Whereas chs. Judges 2:1 describe external threats to Israel, chs....
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IDOLATRY IN ITS INCIPIENT STAGE—BY IMAGE-WORSHIP
(Judges 17:1.)
_HOMILETICS_
I. IDOLATRY BEGINS WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT UPRIGHT IN MORAL CONDUCT.
Judges 17:1.
Micah himself is first heard of as stea...
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EXPOSITION
JUDGES 17:1
We here light upon quite a different kind of history from that which
has preceded. We no longer have to do with judges and their mighty
deeds in delivering Israel from his oppr...
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At this point the book of Judges, as far as its history, ends. What
remains in the book of Judges is not now in chronological order. This
is an appendix to the book of Judges as we get into chapter se...
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Genesis 35:19; Joshua 19:15; Judges 19:1; Judges 19:2; Micah 5:2;...
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Bethlehem — judah — So called here, as Matthew 2:1, Matthew 2:5,
to difference it from Bethlehem in Zebulun. There he was born and
bred. Of Judah — That is, of or belonging to the tribe of Judah; not...